Toxic Empress

Organized Engagement

Silent. Eddie, Thomas, and Bernie froze, the air around them clenching their necks. Xena had not told them the news, but Xena had no choice but to tell them about Alina's death. Xena squeezed her fingers, her eyes down staring at her interlocking fingers. His grandfather and uncle loved Alina just as much as they loved him.

“B-how ... how can?” Eddie's voice stammered as he asked why Alina could die.

“Alina was killed, one of my subordinates found her while the murder was taking place. However, I did not manage to save Alina, until now the culprit is still unknown. That's why I came to Charise because I wanted to investigate Alina's death,” Xena explained full of riled feelings.

Eddie was shocked, his chest tight to hear the news of Alina, even though before Alina died he still sent letters to Eddie and Thomas. Then Xena came to reveal the real thing that happened to Alina.

“Grandfather, Uncle, do you know that Alina was treated unfairly in the palace? Despite her position as Empress, but it was not enough to make others submit to her. I replaced Alina as Empress in the palace, but bad things kept coming. I can't imagine how difficult it is for Alina to survive in the palace,” Xena said later.

“Did the Emperor never respond to that?” ask Thomas.

“Emperor? I think she was the one who made Alina suffer the most, if she didn't ignore Alina then there wouldn't be anything like this. The Emperor ignored Alina, he preferred her concubine, not a single person was on Alina's side. As long as she was in the palace and in the residence of Duke Alister, I think Alina never obtained her happiness,” replied Xena.

Alina had been hiding the matter of the Emperor ignoring her from Eddie and Thomas. How sad they both just know the truth about Alina's life in the palace, all this time Alina tried to make them believe that she was okay during her time in the palace.

“It's okay, you don't have to feel guilty about Alina's life, at least now Alina's calm with your mother. There's nothing more you need to worry about, live your life as best you can and it'll make Alina happy.”.

Xena nodded with a faint smile, she knew that now her Grandpa and Uncle were trying to strengthen themselves.

“Ahh, Xena, do you have a special relationship with Duke Geraldo?” ask Thomas curiously.

“Itu—”

“True, we both will be engaged soon,” chirps Xander sumringah.

Xena steps on Xander's foot, the man is too easy to reveal their relationship. Actually Xena did not want to reveal his relationship with Xander, but Xander instead said it first. Xander grimaced with pain in his leg, Xena grumbled while whispering to Xander. The behavior of the two of them made the person who saw him chuckle, this way they know the relationship between Xena and Xander.

“Hahaha, this is really an amazing coincidence,” Eddie's laugh.

“Ehh? By accident? What does it mean?” ask Xena confused.

“I will tell you the truth to both of you, actually the previous Emperor has arranged an engagement between the two of you. Even it was set when Xena was a baby, the Emperor wanted Duke Alister's family to be the next couple of Emperors. However, because Xena stumbled over a problem, so your engagement was both canceled. Duke Geraldo at that time also descended from the heir to the throne. That's why I say that this is an incredible coincidence,” Eddie said.

Eddie seemed very happy to see Xena can be with Xander, he used to be the person who most supported the engagement between the two. Though their engagement has been severed, but strangely they reunite in adulthood.

“Agree! Better you two just get married, after all Xander's age is 25 years and this is the age that is too mature to get married,” interrupted Liam excited.

Xavier watched as everyone laughed and talked together, and Xavier wanted to see his father and mother get married. If they get engaged first, they will wait longer to get married.

“We'd better get engaged first because I'm not ready to get married in the midst of the chaos that is sweeping the world. We solve the problems that exist in this world and we just got married afterwards,” Xena told Xander.

“Alright, I followed what you said,” replied Xander because she also had the same opinion as Xena.

Their decision has a point too, Xena and Xander can't calm down if Verden hasn't managed to drop them. Moreover Verden does not work alone, he is assisted by the Barbarian King who is none other than the biological father of Xena.

“Xena, while you're here, there's something I want to tell you,” Eddie said suddenly, Eddie's eyes hinting that he wanted to talk to Thomas and Xena all three. Xander realizes the code from Eddie, he immediately invites Xavier and Liam to get out of the living room.

“Actually—”

“Ah, wait a minute, before speaking seriously, I want to hand this.”

Xena took out a number of family business documents that had been passed down the generations, Eddie and Thomas' expressions looked confused.

“This is Duke Alister's family business ownership letter, I've snatched everything from Adolph. He sold the whole family business and I bought back the business that wasn't cheap. Now I want Uncle and Grandpa to manage the business back then I also want Uncle to be the next head of the family,” Xena said.

“You asked me to be the next head of the family? And this ... how do you buy this business? What were you doing while you were missing all this time? Buying Duke Alister's family business takes a lot of money.” Thomas is not sure what Xena gave him.

“I became a killer.”

Then Xena told from beginning to end, she summarized her story into several dense sentences. Starting from the story of him who became the leader of the higanbana killer to himself as the leader of the revolutionary forces. Their expressions went up and down, especially on the part of Xena admitting that she was the one who killed Adolph. Eddie or Thomas heard that Xena had grown up to be the most dangerous killer in the world.

“Gosh, Xena, you're a good killer. You messed up the whole world, is it possible that you seriously want to do an imperial overthrow?” ask Eddie.

“Yes, I want to abolish the system of slavery and he says this system of slavery was first created by the Barbarian King. Looks like he's the first one I have to finish off,” grumbled Xena.

Eddie and Thomas are silent, they exchange glances and code Eddie to talk to Xena.

“Xena, you've heard about Adolph who's not your real father. To be honest I want to tell you that your real father is the King of Barbarian.”